Quotes by Anatole Broyard

Anatole Broyard

A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books – storms and zephyrs.

Book

Sight

Sunset

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader’s teeth.

Aphorism

Sticks

Teeth

Chic is a convent for unloved women.

Chic

Unloved

For years they have been using the role of ‘sex object’ as a cover while they spied out the land.

Sex

Women

Years

I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.

Book

Daughter

Father

I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I’ve read.

Character

Hero

Three

In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people’s lives.

People

Play

Writing

In novels, I said, people are transfigured by love. They’re elevated, made different, lifted out of their ordinariness…It’s not so much to ask, I said. I just want love to live up to its publicity.

Different

People

Want

Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.

People … have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other’s work.

Ideas

Jobs

Writing

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Daughter

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Father

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Government

Hero

Ideas

Jobs

Men

Might

Misunderstood

Obedience

People

Play

Portraits

Possibility

Punishment

Relationship

Rome

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Sunset

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Tone

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Quotes by Anatole Broyard

Anatole Broyard

A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books – storms and zephyrs.

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader’s teeth.

Chic is a convent for unloved women.

For years they have been using the role of ‘sex object’ as a cover while they spied out the land.

I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.

I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I’ve read.

In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people’s lives.

In novels, I said, people are transfigured by love. They’re elevated, made different, lifted out of their ordinariness…It’s not so much to ask, I said. I just want love to live up to its publicity.

Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.

People … have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other’s work.

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